Sunday, 11 August 2013

That's fantastic, little Mr Fox

Just a little FYI at the start:

I'm on holidays in tropical Cairns at the moment and only have blogger for the iPhone. I started drafting this post on my computer and hence some links are actually clickable hyperlinks but some aren't and I will fix this when I get home to make it nice and neat.

Please continue with more interesting crochetery...

This one has been a while in the making...

Remember the little teaser I posted a while back?

Well I had to change quite a bit because I wasn't happy with the look.

But I got lots of help from the ladies in the crochet lounge on Facebook - and now I want to share the love and post the pattern for my Fantastic Mr fox inspired comforter or lovey (depending on which variety of English you speak.)

The pattern

There have been some quite heated debates about pattern and copyright. I did use part of other patterns to make this but I will happily give them credit but also think I turned them into something new and unique.

The head

I found this through moogly whose blog I absolutely love. As part of her awesome free pattern collections, she put a selection of free basic shape patterns online...

Here is the link to a perfect sphere PDF. I have copied this here just for ease of having the pattern together in one place. This sphere pattern belongs entirely to ms premise.

Use a 5.0mm hook (H hook).

18 Row Sphere

Row 1) Ch 2. 6 Sc in second Ch from hook. (6)

Row 2) inc in each stitch around. (12)

Row 3) 1, inc, 2, inc, 1, inc, 2, inc, 1, inc (17)

Row 4) 2, inc, 2, inc, 1, inc, 2, inc, 2, inc, 1, inc,

1 (23)

Row 5) 3, inc, 5, inc, 5, inc, 5, inc, 1 (27)

Row 6) 4, inc, 6, inc, 6, inc, 6, inc, 1 (31)

Row 7) 8, inc, 9, inc, 9, inc, 2 (34)

Row 8) 10, inc, 16, inc, 6 (36)

Row 9) 17, inc, 18 (37)

Row 10) even (37)

Row 11) 18, dec, 17 (36)

Row 12) 6, dec, 16, dec, 10 (34)

Row 13) 2, dec, 9, dec, 9, dec, 8 (31)

Row 14) 1, dec, 6, dec, 6, dec, 6, dec, 4 (27)

Row 15) 1, dec, 5, dec, 5, dec, 5, dec, 3 (23)

Row 16) 1, dec, 1, dec, 2, dec, 2, dec, 1, dec, 2, dec, 2 (17)

Row 17) (dec, 1) repeat () around (12)

There is one more row to come but I stopped here briefly and used brown yarn to embroider the eyes. Then get your stuffing and fill the head.

Row 18) 4 scdec. Fasten off. Weave loose end through each stitch in the opening. Pull tightly to close.

The Ears.

You will need to make 4 ears (the orange and black back x2 and the white and black front x2).

Hi I used very cheap yarn from the dollar store. It was 8 ply but I don't have any specific colour ways. Just orange, brown and white. They were 100 get skeins and I used maybe half of them may. Hope that helps. Superfruitycrochet